like you said it's a soulful album, but it requires you to dig in the crate and then i heard baby hugheyight be your grandmama's basement. what was that process like? >> the new album with the roots "wake up" is my most soulful and most organic and most dirty and raw and gritty. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> when i originally came to love, one of his missions was to make sure we didn't do the super standard and everybody's heard these songs and all they'll think of is the original when you do that. >> right. we didn't want to do that. we wanted to do something different. we wanted to dig in the crate and uncover for a lot of people, and rediscover for some people, some songs that may have been overlooked. >> yeah. i think we uncovered a lot of classics and rediscovered them for a new generation. >> and i think this idea of bringing generations together is powerful and it speaks to the political movement because you were very active in the obama campaign and very active in the '08 election in general as a powerful voice for politics. >> yeah. >> some people would do a public service announcement, but you were